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Top 10 Safety Tips
How to make your house a safe home:
- Fit a smoke alarm and check it regularly
- Make a fire action plan so that everyone in your
house knows how to escape in the event of fire
- Take care when cooking with hot oil and think about
using thermostatically controlled deep fat fryers
- Never leave lit candles unattended
- Ensure cigarettes are stubbed out and disposed of
carefully
- Never smoke in bed
- Keep matches and lighters away from children
- Keep clothing away from heating appliances
- Take care in the kitchen! Accidents whilst cooking
account for 59% of fires in the home
- Take special care when you are tired or when
you've been drinking. Half of all deaths in domestic fires happen between 10pm and 8am.
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